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FR73


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Hi, I was just tooling around under google images when I found this:

http://stringbagsandrattleboxes.devhub.com/blog/585562-370mm-french-mortar-filloux/

-There is NO known article under Artillery of the Great war on the original Landships site for this gun, Its  apparently a French matchup to Bertha, and was obviously used in WWI. . there may be a valuable model out there that we don't know about. And this is something certainly worth modeling (And cataloging on Landships II)
Just thought I'd put this out there for everyone.

Greetings, Josh


-- Edited by FR73 on Wednesday 23rd of March 2011 07:51:46 AM

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Write an article - check the content against authoritative sources and I'll put it on Landships II.

The Filloux mortar was comparable with the German Gamma-gerat mortar rather than the modestly mobile 42cm Bertha.

Regards,

Charlie

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Where would one go to find authoritative backing?

Wikipedia also has no knowledge of this weapon

is it possible their confusing it with a 240mm mortar?

Greetings, Josh



-- Edited by FR73 on Thursday 24th of March 2011 03:29:42 AM

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Hello,

Please, see my paper "Le Mortier de 370 mm Filloux" in french Review "GBM" january 2011 N° 95 ("Histoire et Collections" editor).Many details, the entire history of the 13 mortars made and 25 photographs and drawings, mostly never published!
Yours sincerely,
Guy François.

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Hi if you put this "Le Mortier de 370 mm Filloux"  (Thanks ALVF) into Google you'll find much usefull info, much of it is in french but an online translator will help there... heres an example

The role of heavy artillery

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Thursday 24th of March 2011 12:41:11 PM

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ALVF


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Hello,

I read some info on "google" and, unfortunately, some are really "stupid"!
One write that the 370 mm Filloux mortar is a coast artillery mortar, it is totally wrong!
This mortar was studied by Chef d'escadron Louis Filloux, as early as 1907, as a powerful Siege mortar.
Yours sincerely,
Guy François.

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